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Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject ourselves, or we know where...
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If writers were good businessmen, they’d have too much sense to be writers.
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All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind...
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He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing....
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We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.
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With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did...
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My mother loved children – she would have given anything if I had been...
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Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
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Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that...
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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.